246 NOCTUID^. 



median fold ; antemedial line fulvous yellow defined on outer side 

 by black, waved, somewhat oblique ; a blackish discoidal mark and 

 mark on costa above end of cell ; postmedial line fulvous yellow 

 defined on inner side by black, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, at vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell and waved 

 to inner margin ; subterrninal line whitish defined on inner side by 

 black suffusion, dentate, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 middle : a terminal series of white points defined by a waved black 

 line. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous 

 brown except towards torn us; cilia white tinged with brown at 

 apex or to vein 2 ; the underside usually with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown and with slight brown postmedial spots on 

 veins 8, 7. 



Hah. Aden (Yerbury), 1 $ ; Punjab, Wuzeerabad {Hearseij), 1 J 

 type, Murree {Harford), 1 $ , Rawal Pindi (Yerbury), 1 ? , Camp- 

 bellpur (Yerbury)^ 5 c? , 3 $ , Khairabad (Yerbury), 1 $ , Allahabad, 

 1 $ ; SiND, Hubb R. (Stvinhoe), 1 $ , Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 (S type 

 sabulosa. Exp. 24-32 millim. 



7368. Hypotacha ochribasalis. 



Pseudophia ochribasalis, Hmpsn. P.Z.S. 1896, p. 264, pi. x. f. 31. 



Head and thorax ochreous, the tegulse tinged with fuscous ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae tinged with fuscous, the tarsi 

 ringed with fuscous ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous, suffused with black from the antemedial line 

 to termeu ; subbasal line black with some fuscous before it on 

 costal area, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black, slightly sinuous ; a slight black discoidal lunule defined on 

 outer side by ochreous ; postmedial line black defined on outer side 

 by ochreous, excurved below costa, at middle and above inner 

 margin, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 whitish, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal 

 series of whitish points ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing white, 

 the termen fuscous from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white, fuscous 

 towards apex. 



Hah. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse), 1 d , 2 $ type. Exp. S 24, $ 

 28 millim. 



Genus CRYPSOTIDIA. 



Type. 



Cry]:soiidia, N. C. E,oths. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 432 (1901) voolastoni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely porrect and 

 broadly scaled towards extremity, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth with tuft 

 of hair above; eyes large, round; antennae of male with long cilia; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore coxfe and femora 

 of male tufted with long hair, the tibite modei-a,tely fringed with hair, the fore 

 and hind tibiaj not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 rot crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing 



